And So Now We're Wrestling With the Body Politic - We Are the Physics

And so now we’re wrestling with the body politic

It will spit and salivate on culture

It dictates and lactates

Then we grow up handcuffed and bound to the teat

I think if we chop off the head it grows back

Bigger than before, bigger than before

And we’re stuck, stuck

We’re stuck sucking

And so now we’re wrestling with the body politic

Where buying you attention is applauded

I’ve got a new way, got a new way to sell myself

And you’re grasping with desperate affection

Don’t bother getting past puberty, it just gets worse

The best you’ll hope for is that you like the taste of boredom

We’re stuck sucking

And so now we’re wrestling with the body politic

And so now we’re wrestling with the body politic

Where people shake unwashed hands

And smile politely for posterity

Because a smile’s without consequence, a smile’s without consequence

And is limited to the mouth it came from

Where the teeth are curtains for a lecherous tongue

A lecherous tongue

And so now we’re wrestling with the body politic

The art of compliance is a new science

We’re afraid to make the same mistakes as our fathers

Exact replicas, historical clones

We’re afraid of getting cancer, there’s the threat of being killed

We’re afraid of those in power and afraid of the unskilled

We’re stuck sucking

And so now we’re wrestling with the body politic